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Saturday, October 22, 2011

AZMEX UPDATE 22-10-11

AZMEX UPDATE 22 OCT 2011

Note: Looking like a busy weekend already. Also couple more found around Sonoyta early this morning. About a mile south of AZ line. Unrest seems to be spreading north from Sinaloa. With this and some of the following, does el chapo need to re-pacify the area?

Border Patrol agents working in the Tucson Sector recovered a 4,480 pounds of marijuana worth about $3.5 million that was abandoned by drug smugglers.

Agents were notified of possible smuggler presence via detection technology on Friday night. When they traced the source of the alert, they found tire tracks that led to two abandoned Chevrolet pickup trucks full of marijuana. The trucks contained about 4,500 pounds of marijuana.

"The continued vigilance by the men and women of the Ajo Station combined with our enhanced detection technology continues to disrupt the efforts of transnational criminal organizations operating in the western corridor of the Tucson Sector," said Acting Deputy Chief Manuel Padilla in a press release.

Officers conducting outbound operations at the Douglas port of entry referred the 30-year-old woman from Agua Prieta, Sonora, for a secondary inspection of her pickup truck Friday.

When officers searched the woman, they say rounds of ammunition began falling from her clothing. CBP officials say 200 rounds of 9 mm and . 45-caliber ammunition were removed from her waistband.The woman was arrested and the ammunition was processed for seizure.The name of the woman wasn't immediately released.

Note: 347 leads right out of the SDNM and Vekol valley. Casa Grande remains a hub for drug & human smuggling

A Casa Grande man was arrested Monday night by the Pinal County Sheriff's Office on Arizona 347 for human smuggling.

Sheriff's Office spokesman Elias Johnson said a deputy heading north on Arizona 347 observed two vehicles traveling in tandem at a high rate of speed around 7:45 p.m. Monday. The lead vehicle was a tan 2000 Lincoln LS and the second was a blue 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan. The deputy ran the license plates and both came back as operating with cancelled insurance. The deputy initiated a traffic stop on the lead vehicle at milepost 167. The car came to a stop and two Hispanic males fled into the desert. The driver and a passenger in the rear were apprehended. The second vehicle got away.The driver was identified as Dominique Reggie Guillen, 18, of Casa Grande. Johnson said Guillen told the deputy he was only 17 years old, but MVD records confirmed he was 18. The passenger was identified as Gregoro Antonio Martinez-Diaz of Mexico. Martinez-Diaz was found to be in the country illegally and did not speak English.

Deputies searched both Guillen and Martinez-Diaz. Guillen was in possession of $1,256.60 and Martinez-Diaz was in possession of $2,750. Martinez-Diaz was turned over to U.S. Border Patrol agents for processing.

Guillen was booked into jail for human smuggling and unlawful transport of an illegal immigrant.

MIGUEL ALEMAN — The Mexican military announced the seizure of more than 3,200 pounds of marijuana and weapons that were stashed in an underground bunker in Miguel Aleman, which is across the Rio Grande from Roma.

According to information released by the Mexican army, a military convoy was conducting routine patrols in the Monte Bello neighborhood when they found an underground bunker that contained 187 bundles of marijuana with an estimated weight of 3,262 pounds.

Navojoa, Sonora (PH)The PGR seized six thousand cartridges and arrested two people at a checkpoint they set up south of Navojoa, near the toll booth Don Station.

The operation led to the seizure of 2,397 rounds of 7.62 x 39 mm; 3,000 cartridges of .223 caliber and 700 of caliber 45.

The feds arrested two persons, whose names, according to an official report of the agency are: Ernesto Arce and Juan Rivera Enrique Mora Alatorre, who were arrested for their alleged responsibility in the commission of the crime of violation of the Arms Act Firearms and Explosives.

The seizure took place in the International Highway 15 Mexico-Nogales number at Kilometer 129 + 900.

The interception, the report says, happened thanks to a citizen complaint in which it was reported that a truck carrying concealed cartridges.

The unit, a pickup, line Sierra, GMC brand, model 2000, white, came from Phoenix, Arizona, and was destined for Los Mochis, Sinaloa, was led by Rivera Arce, while traveling as a passenger Mora Alatorre.

A inspection by the official, ministerial federal police located two prefabricated chambers, located on both sides of the pickup box the cartridges.

Detainees, cartridges and vehicle were available to Federal Fiscal, who will continue with the development of the investigations.

Note Interesting details. Uzi govt not issue, except to Some police. Just south of AZ line.

The vehicle was used for false and implements located inside the pickup, were turned over to the PGR. Abandoned vehicle and found military tactical gear, solar cells, gun and other implements.Vasquez JCNogales, Sonora - New Day

fleeing the military to be discovered by members of the National Defense Secretariat, leaving behind a pickup truck, late model, and within the unit had tactical gear, military style remote tracking equipment, solar cells, devices radio communication, marijuana residue, a weapon Uzzi, .9 mm caliber.Yesterday, a platoon of military forces, apparently conducting surveillance runs the El Sasabe and allegedly found in the distance to several people in military uniforms.The strangers, seeing that they were real soldiers, allegedly got out of the pick up left their belongings to run away and get lost in the distance, said a police spokesman.After making trips between the mountains of that locality, and by failing to locate the military type, the soldiers secured the old truck and the belongings that had to be transferred to the border, they said.Apparently, within the unit, Ford, copper, paint very badly treated, military elements located documents showing that it is a vehicle of foreign origin.Up to press time, it is unknown if the vehicle was secured with theft report, a situation that corresponds to the respective authorities to investigate, reported.Uniforms are presumably or is American origin, were similar to clothing worn by soldiers of the neighboring country.

Note: Looks like someone else figured out too much happening there lately.

Hundreds of soldiers arrived yesterday afternoon in this city presumably to strengthen security in the municipality, following the violent events in which more than half a dozen people have been executed with the seal of organized crime in the last hours.

It was about 5 in the afternoon yesterday when military reinforcements arrived, the 60 Infantry Battalion at the la Comisaría de Esperanza, about 7 km north of Ciudad Obregon.

The move was in command type vehicles and trucks packed with soldiers, who crossed from southern populations in several convoys to headquarters as part of the strategy that keeps the Federal Government in combating organized crime.

Hundreds of soldiers, who came to military installations to the desolate landscape of constant killings, resulting from possible settling of scores in the southern part of the state, which has kept its people accustomed to the quiet before, now constant uncertainty.

At least half a dozen of crimes related to drug dealing has been in the past two weeks in the southern part of the state, mainly in Cajeme, and where most of the dead are young.

It is hoped that the arrival of more soldiers achieve a comprehensive coordination between the various police forces and together implement a tactic to control the crime wave that has become entrenched in the region.

Also, citizens expect to design a series of actions to eradicate the violence, and that executions between criminals are becoming more consistent and aggressive.

Bullets have reached their innocent victims that have nothing to do with the distribution and handling of drugs, including children, youth, men and women, as happened on Wednesday night Cumuripa sector, where a storekeeper was injured.

Similarly, around 21:40 pm Thursday, three of four men attacked with assault rifles known as "goat horn", were killed outside riddled on the street located between calle 200 and Paris Otancahui .

One survived and recovers over several injuries caused by firearm projectiles.

Hours before, between Magnolia Street and Cibuta Salvatierra, in the colony Eusebio Kino, the merchant Yizván Camacho Alberto Aragon, 24, was killed by two hitmen shot several times after the vehicle left there used to flee into streets of the colony 410.